Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\nIn a landscape far from stable, money is the driving force leading to an eventual delineation of a handful of institutions which can compete for national titles and the rest. <\/p>\n
Along this journey, millions will be spent for trophies rather than to enhance learning at a time when human knowledge is doubling every 13 or so months. It\u2019s fun to play and cheer, but values are being subverted by the desire for success which at its best is fleeting.<\/p>\n
Bill Lively, North Dallas<\/p>\n
2025 a national nightmare<\/p>\n
As we look back over this past year, we have to ask, are our president and elected officials looking out for all Americans or just the population that supports their patrician ideology? <\/p>\n
About 95% of all Americans are dealing with the current affordability crisis and the impact of our dollars continuing to shrink as we go into the new year.<\/p>\n
If we continue down this path toward a recession and our democracy crumbling under poor leadership and a disregard for the Constitution, we will be faced with a situation that could take decades to repair. <\/p>\n
To me, this past year has been a national nightmare. I just pray that we all wake up before it is too late.<\/p>\n
So as we enter into this new year, take the time to go vote and save our great nation.<\/p>\n
Joe Milligan, Campbell<\/p>\n
Voting values the problem<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cWhat do you value?\u201d by Don Skaggs, Dec. 24 Letters.<\/p>\n
I think 77 million Americans did vote their values in \u201924 \u2014 and I suspect that that\u2019s our fundamental problem.<\/p>\n
Curtis Carpenter, Dallas\/Munger Place<\/p>\n
Congress, do something <\/p>\n
Re: \u201c2nd group cancels performance \u2014 Concerts at Kennedy Center in spotlight after Trump\u2019s name added,\u201d Wednesday news story. <\/p>\n
Reading the last paragraph of this story, I keep wondering why President Donald Trump keeps getting away with everything he does, even if it\u2019s illegal. <\/p>\n
That paragraph reads, \u201cPresident John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and Congress passed a law the following year naming the center as a living memorial to him. Scholars have said any changes to the building\u2019s name would need congressional approval; the law explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person\u2019s name on the building\u2019s exterior.\u201d <\/p>\n
Seems as this Republican-controlled Congress is not doing its job very well. What if President Barack Obama had put his name on everything?<\/p>\n
Sandy Elkins, Plano<\/p>\n
Politicians don\u2019t follow through<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cPolitical theater,\u201d by Kenneth Mathias, Dec. 26 letters<\/p>\n
Mathias says President Donald Trump frequently doesn\u2019t follow through on his pledges, but he said he would close the border and effectively did. No new laws were needed, just enforcement of existing laws. <\/p>\n
During his first term, most countries in Europe did in fact increase their defense spending despite what Mathias implies.<\/p>\n
Has Trump followed through on all his pledges? No, but what politician does?<\/p>\n
Recall that President Joe Biden said, \u201cNo more drilling, period!\u201d then went to Saudi Arabia, hat in hand, to beg for them to increase their oil production. I can\u2019t imagine a more insincere pledge than that.<\/p>\n
Les Gregory, Frisco<\/p>\n
Party picks candidates<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cDemocrats do more harm,\u201d by Daniel Willis, Thursday Letters. <\/p>\n
Willis stated that Democrats do more harm without giving any information as to why. But, that is not the main point for my submission. He states that \u201ca handful of party power brokers, including Nancy Pelosi and a famous actor, decided Biden had to go.\u201d <\/p>\n
He complains that President Joe Biden was replaced without one single vote from the public. That is a fallacy. Whether a person elects to run or not run for public office is not up to the voters, but to the party with which that person is affiliated. <\/p>\n
Yes, Biden did implode in this debate with Donald Trump which signaled his then being unfit to serve as president, and he had to pull out of the campaign. That would be exactly the same as if he had contracted a physical disease and had to pull out for physical health reasons.<\/p>\n
In each case, the public does not cast votes. Replacing someone to run in a campaign is not \u201cone of the most flagrant acts against democracy,\u201d but invoking their freedom within our democracy to do so. Again, it is up to the party itself.<\/p>\n
Roger Howe, Whitewright<\/p>\n
Inspiring Texans of the Year<\/p>\n
Re: \u201c2025 Texans of the Year \u2014 Those who lost so much, yet fought for others,\u201d Dec. 28 Opinion.<\/p>\n
This was an inspiring \u2014 albeit sad \u2014 selection for the annual Texans of the Year. I can\u2019t believe what those parents went through, and, despite their grief, they did something positive, which is not easy with our current state government. Kudos to The Dallas Morning News!<\/p>\n
Harriet Blake, Grapevine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports vs. learning Re: \u201cMoney boosts playoff chances \u2014 Wealthy donors seen as key to playing for titles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[40779,27717,7,5755,42093,9547,49,48,95316,4239,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-657970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-camp-mystic","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-joe-biden","12":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","13":"tag-money","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-football","16":"tag-performing-arts","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115847245596798707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}